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In the Osebergfunnet IV Tekstilene book, on pages 207 and 208, you will find mention of “slyngvev” and “soumak”. There’s A LOT of confusion regarding this topic. On the pages of forest.gen.nz we can find the following information: “There are also indications that the Oseberg queen wore a linen veil on her head. It is imprinted, as…

The Swedish museum, Historiska museet, added more – high resolution – pictures of some of the Birka bands. Thanks to this we can now expand Agnes Geijer’s work and decipher more patterns. I hope they will never stop adding more and more high res photos ❤ The very tiny band from grave 977 with the pattern…

THIS IS A DRAFT ARTICLE – COMPILATION FOR A FRIEND. WORK ON THIS POST WILL BE CONTINUED. Article: New finds of Viking Age textiles in Ukraine and Russia by Kirill Mikhailov Mikhailovsky Monastery, Kiev, Ukraine: a Scandinavian silver fibula of Terslev type; fragments of a tablet‐woven band in silk and silver wire were found in situ on a…

From Wikipedia: “Samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, of a twill-type weave, often including gold or silver thread. The word was derived from Old French samit, from medieval Latin samitum, examitum deriving from the ByzantineGreek ἑξάμιτον hexamiton “six threads”, usually interpreted as indicating the use of six yarns in…

I was asked to make 2 ten cm long pieces of the band from Birka grave 965 (pattern B 6 by Agnes Geijer) and the band from XVth century South Germany or Austria (patern 26 by Nancy Spies). The Birka band brocading was made using a drawn silver wire. The band was 11 mm wide….

Few pictures from the show about Viking and Slavic life in the early middle ages my group – Drużyna Wojów Kolovrat – and Bractwo Wojowników Kruki gave at the event in a small village called Brzózki (gmina Szubin).